diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index f3bc083d4c14..95829523cded 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -2983,7 +2983,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_unprep_clone);
 static void __blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *dst, struct request *src)
 {
 	dst->cpu = src->cpu;
-	dst->cmd_flags = src->cmd_flags | REQ_NOMERGE;
 	dst->cmd_type = src->cmd_type;
 	dst->__sector = blk_rq_pos(src);
 	dst->__data_len = blk_rq_bytes(src);